142 EDIBLE FISHES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



A single dorsal tin with eight or nine spines : the anal with three. Scales 

 small, in fifty or more transverse series : head entirely naked except in 

 C. lineolata. Lateral line continuous. 



Gcograpliicnl distribution. — Tropical and subtropical zones of the Indian 

 and Pacific Oceans: Mediterranean and the Atlantic seaboard from the 

 south coast of England to Sierra Leone. 



COEIS LINEOLATA. 



Julis lineolata, Cuv. & Yal. Hist. Nat. Poiss. xiii. p. 436, 1839. 



Julis cyanoqramma, Richards. Ann. Nat. Hist. (2) 1851, vii. p. 289, and 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 73. 

 Ofhtlialmolepis lineolata, Bleek. Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G1, p. 413 ; Kner, Yoy. 



Novara, Eisch. p. 258, pi. xi. fig. 1. 

 Goris lineolata, G-nth. Catal. Eish. iv. p. 206 ; Casteln. Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N.S.Wales, iii. p. 390. 

 Julis adelaidensis, Casteln. Ees. Eish. Austr. p. 35, 1875. 



Maori. 



B. vi. D. 9/13. A. 3/13. Y. 1/5. P. 13. C. 12. L. lat. 52-56. L. tr. 6/20. 



Yert. 10/17. 

 Length of head 4-10-4-25, of caudal fin 4-90-6-00, height of body 

 4-00-4-40 in the total length. Diameter of eye 6-00 in the length of the 

 head 2"15 in that of the pointed snout, and 1'00-1'15 in the slightly convex 

 interorbital space. Nostrils moderately approximate, small, rounded, and 

 simple, directed forwards. Upper profile of head rounded. Jaws equal. Cleft 

 of mouth small and but little oblique, the maxilla reaching to between the 

 nostrils. A pair of strong anterior canines in each jaw, those of the man- 

 dible fitting between the maxillary pair when the mouth is closed ; upper 

 jaw with an outer row of eight or nine strong conical teeth on each 

 ramus, inside of which are from one to three series of smaller granular 

 teeth; lower jaw similarly armed, but with nine or ten enlarged conical 

 teeth, and the inner teeth fewer in number ; one or two posterior 

 ■canines on each side. The dorsal fin commences above the middle of 

 the opercle, and its outer margin forms a gentle curve along its entire 

 length ; the spines are slender and flexible, increasing in height to the last, 

 which is one half longer than the first, 2"75 in the length of the head, and 

 1"33 in the height of the last ray, which is slightly elongated : the anal 

 -commences beneath the anterior dorsal ray ; its first spine is short, the third 

 and longest equal to the fifth dorsal spine ; the rayed portion is similar to 

 that of the dorsal : ventral fin pointed, reaching to the vent ; the two outer 

 rays are elongate, 1*70 in the length of the head ; the spine is equal in 

 iength to the last dorsal spine, and five eighths of the outer ray : upper 

 pectoral rays the longest, 1"50 in the length of the head : caudal rounded, 

 the least height of its pedicle 2"10in the laeight of the body. A few small 

 scales behind the eye, and on the extreme upper angle of the opercle. 

 Lateral line tubes branched. 



Colors. — Greneral colors red above, yellowish below, separated by a more or 

 less conspicuous pink longitudinal band, which is generally bordered above 

 find belo\v by purplish bauds ; all the lower scales with a violet bar forming 

 together more or less regular vertical streaks ; upper and lower Surfaces of 

 head olive green, the sides golden, the wdiole traversed by blue bands which 



